{"id":21222,"date":"2017-11-09T13:31:42","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T21:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicalfitnessnetwork.org\/public\/?p=21222"},"modified":"2017-11-07T07:51:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T15:51:28","slug":"recover-injuries-using-active-rest-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/all-mfn\/recover-injuries-using-active-rest-pool\/","title":{"rendered":"Recover from Injuries Using Active Rest in the Pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bC-iA0P6jRo?rel=0\" width=\"360\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever felt like Tom? You try and try but seem to end up adrift? Your intelligent, well read a motivated, hard working athlete, you know a lot of things, you certainly know how to exercise and you do it well.\u00a0 You have probably asked for some advice over the years on how to train. Especially since that nagging injury occurred.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it\u2019s shin splints that developed from training for a \u00bd marathon, maybe it\u2019s the knee injury from playing basketball, tennis, pickleball or sliding into 3<sup>rd<\/sup> base. Maybe you rolled an ankle because you missed that bottom step while walking out the door and that ankle hasn\u2019t been right since.<\/p>\n<p>So what do we do? We medicate it, rest it, tape it and brace it. While we are resting we look at the latest exercise programs and plot our course to get back on track once we feel it\u2019s better we hit the gym \u2013 wrap that injury and go\u2026. HIIT training, Cross Fit, Boot Camp, running we are on a roll. After just a couple weeks that injury is back. Now we are back on the couch with our favorite bottle of motrin again, now your despondent. That nagging thought creeps into your head, I\u2019m too old, gotta give up the game.<\/p>\n<p>Not so fast my friend! We can do things a different way! The problem here is we took a few weeks or months off!<\/p>\n<h4><strong>How about trying ACTIVE Rest?! <\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-21223\" src=\"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Pool-Ladder-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Pool-Ladder-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Pool-Ladder-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Pool-Ladder-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Pool-Ladder.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Active rest defined: \u201cInvolves performing light exercises that stimulate the recovery process without imposing undue stress on the injured body part.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Taking an active rest day will hasten your recovery, making you feel stronger and faster when you\u2019re back in workout-mode.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>What are the benefits of active rest in a pool?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Biggest benefit \u2013 Reduce swelling. When you reduce swelling you reduce pain. A two-fer bonus! Also unload the joint \u2013 due to the gravity free environment, again \u2013 takes the pain away. With the reduction in swelling and pain we can keep the joint moving, stabilize and strengthen it, working up to full body workouts to spin you back out into your sport.<\/p>\n<p>The pool is what I call a pass through. It\u2019s not a destination for most of us. We use it for it\u2019s amazing properties so we can continue our favorite activities and sports. Active rest in a pool will not only rehabilitate your injury getting you back to your sport and activities faster it will help you mentally and emotionally, because you can DO something! It keeps CAN\u2019T out of our vocabulary! High Schools, Colleges, Professional Teams and even our Military are using pools for training. Athlete or not, we hate being sidelined. We do much better when we are active. So next time you are adrift\u2026try something different.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/medicalfitnessnetwork.org\/members\/debbie-booth\/\">Debbie Booth<\/a> is an aquatic fitness educator and trainer; she grew up in MI, (a Lake Girl for life) where her love of water began. She teaches medically based aquatics and has yet to grow gills. If lost she will usually turn up at the end of a dock with her feet in the water.\u00a0 You can visit her website at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wateristhenewgym.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wateristhenewgym.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever felt like Tom? You try and try but seem to end up adrift? Your intelligent, well read a motivated, hard working athlete, you know a lot of things, you certainly know how to exercise and you do it well.\u00a0 You have probably asked for some advice over the years on how to train. Especially since that nagging injury occurred. Maybe it\u2019s shin splints that developed from training for a \u00bd marathon, maybe it\u2019s the knee injury from playing basketball, tennis, pickleball or sliding into 3rd base. Maybe you rolled an ankle because you missed that bottom step while walking out the door and that ankle hasn\u2019t been right since. So what do we do? We medicate it, rest it, tape it and brace it. While we are resting we look at the latest exercise programs and plot our course to get back on track once we feel it\u2019s better we hit the gym \u2013 wrap that injury and go\u2026. HIIT training, Cross Fit, Boot Camp, running we are on a roll. After just a couple weeks that injury is back. Now we are back on the couch with our favorite bottle of motrin again, now your despondent. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":225,"featured_media":21223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[54,134,198,193,165],"class_list":["post-21222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-mfn","tag-exercise","tag-fitness","tag-fitness-professionals","tag-healthy-aging","tag-injury-prevention"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}